A graduate of La Sorbonne University, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and IEP Paris, in 2001 Maëlle Gavet set up Predstavitelskij.dom, a Russian corporate events company, before joining Boston Consulting Group as a partner in 2003. In 2010, she joined Ozon.ru as Sales and Marketing Director, becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2011. In 2015, she was appointed Executive Vice-President of Global Operations for Priceline Group and then Chief Executive Officer of Compass in 2017.